Sasuke, no matter how big of a jerk you may ever be, I am confident you will always be the world champion of inadvertently and appropriately punishing yourself.

Yes, exactly! He's like Sokka's dark and much less awesome twin! *snerk*

Incidentally, yeah, I do agree with you about the frustrating tendency of all relationships to be reduced to sex by fans.

In a lot of ways, I'm just as guilty of this as everyone else, but I do try not to be, and I always have my platonic OTP, where I'm gaga over the friendship or the parental relationship. (Or both).